Kunnakudi Thiruvannamalai Mutt Adikam

Tiruvannamalai Adheenam, also Kunnakudi Tiruvannamalai Mutt Adikam or Kunnakudi Adheenam is a Saivite mutt or aadhenam(mutt) in South India established by 500 years ago.

History

Srimat Deivasigamani Desiga Paramacharya Swamigal founded a Saiva siddantha math at Tiruvannamalai, in North Arcot district. Later on, the disciples of the math, now called Kunnakudi Thiruvannamalai Mutt Adikam, settled down at Piranmalai. About 200 years ago, due to religious and administrative convenience and at the request of Sethupathi Raja of Ramnad, they shifted the activity to Kunnakudi in Tirupathur Taluk of the Ramanathapuram district. The math is The founder of the adheenam had a very cordial relation with Vellala Maharaja and was the disciple of Arulnandi Sivacharya Swamigal, who established the Saiva siddantha philosophy in Tamil Nadu[1] The temple maintains and administers the Shanmughanathar Temple.

References
  1. Monasteries in South India .P.21.Swami Swahananda

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